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Thursday, July 25, 2019

Online Sales of Automotive Accessories Continue to See Growth, According to The NPD Group

Online dollar sales of automotive accessories – including appearance accessories, cargo management, exterior accessories, interior accessories, towing & hitch, and tire & wheel accessories – grew by 26 percent in the 12 months ending April 2019, according to The NPD Group's Checkout E-commerce Tracking. Additionally, 34 percent of online dollar volume during the same time period resulted from sales within these six accessory categories.

"Online accessory sales are seeing gains, as the e-commerce channel is able to offer an expansive selection that can be challenging for retailers to match or maintain in brick and mortar locations," said Nathan Shipley, executive director and automotive industry analyst, The NPD Group. "Accessories are also not typically required as urgently, whereas a replacement car battery may drive a consumer in-store for same-day purchase."

According to Checkout data, more than half of consumers that made an automotive aftermarket purchase online bought an automotive accessory. In fact, many of the accessory categories are seeing double-digit online sales gains with appearance accessories up 56 percent, interior accessories up 32 percent, and exterior accessories up 31 percent.

While pure-play online retailers are capturing the greatest share of automotive accessories e-commerce sales, traditional retailers remain in the mix as they work to replicate their in-store sales strengths through web-based offerings.

"Consumers continue to move purchases of hard-to-find items – such as application-specific automotive accessories – online," added Shipley. "While pure-play 'etailers' own the lion's share of sales in these categories, there is opportunity for traditional brick-and-mortar stores to remain competitive by creating user-friendly web experiences while also offering a variety of accessories, competitively priced and available to ship. In-store pick-up options – convenient for the consumer – may also help keep foot traffic in the stores for the purchase of automotive accessories that are not time sensitive." Read here.

About The NPD Group, Inc.
NPD offers data, industry expertise, and prescriptive analytics to help our clients grow their businesses in a changing world. Over 2000 companies worldwide rely on us to help them measure, predict, and improve performance across all channels, including brick-and-mortar and e-commerce. We have offices in 27 cities worldwide, with operations spanning the Americas, Europe, and APAC. Practice areas include apparel, appliances, automotive, beauty, books, B2B technology, consumer technology, e-commerce, fashion accessories, food consumption, foodservice, footwear, home, juvenile products, media entertainment, mobile, office supplies, retail, sports, toys, travel retail, video games, and watches / jewelry. For more information, visit npd.com. Follow us on Twitter: @npdgroup.

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Checkout offers robust data for tracking and improving performance across all channels plus buyer analytics to help businesses keep current customers and win new ones. The Checkout Omnipanel tracks online and in-store sales. A complementary e-commerce panel delivers more granular views of sales through the fastest growing channel with access to over 1 million consumers via our research partner Rakuten Intelligence. Buyer analytics deliver insight into most valuable customers, brand loyalty, brand leakage / lift, brand launches, and more.

Please note: Automotive aftermarket online dollar sales referenced does not include online tire sales. Source: The NPD Group, Inc. / Checkout E-Commerce Tracking, 12 months ending April 2019.

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Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles August 2019 Newsletter Available

Vintage garden furniture auctioned in Philadelphia is featured in a sale report in Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles August 2019 newsletter. Kovels' focuses on rustic stone and cast-iron benches with naturalistic elements like leaves, grapevines and tree trunks. Be sure to see the pair of cast iron benches with oak leaves and pinecones that brought more than $18,000.

Bidders took time to admire antique pocket watches at a New Hampshire auction. Kovels' latest newsletter pictures American-, British- and Swiss-made timepieces with open faces or hunting cases that spoke of an elegant era of accessories. The most expensive, a working 14-karat gold c.1885 Waltham model, sold for $20,000, while a Swiss Civil War-era watch with a battlefield image on its face brought $400. Other examples were priced in between.

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Rookwood pottery has been popular for over 100 years and their large, important pieces sell for thousands of dollars. But they also made small and useful pieces that are sometimes overlooked, like the paperweights pictured in the August newsletter. See paperweights depicting a monkey, squirrel, duck, bear, frog and others that sold for hundreds of dollars, as well as the Rookwood "crossover" advertising paperweight picturing the company name that brought $3,000. More advertising collectibles can be viewed in Kovels' August issue, and they have tires as their subject. Vintage signs with famous names and trademarks were auctioned in Indiana, and it doesn't take an automobiliana collector to recognize the companies and clever logos of Firestone, Michelin, Goodyear, Pirelli, Dunlop and others.

Modern glass vessels by contemporary glass artists auctioned for high prices in New Jersey. Find brilliantly colored glass in unpredictable shapes by Lino Tagliapietra, Dale Chihuly and William Morris along with their prices in Kovels' newsletter. And, finally, a selection of perennially popular porcelain figurines by Boehm is also part of the August issue. Sold at auction in Atlanta, the delicate detailed and hand-painted pieces depict plants, birds and animals.

Kovels' popular illustrated Collector's Gallery answers readers' questions about a porcelain hatpin holder, a set of Old Maid cards, a Royal Bayreuth pitcher and a marked silver-plated bowl. The August Dictionary of Marks lists makers of modernist-style jewelry. And more than 70 antiques and collectibles are listed in the August Buyer's Price Guide.

Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles is available as a print subscription, or as a digital version that is part of the Kovels.com Premium subscription.

Terry Kovel is one of America's foremost authorities on antiques and collectibles. She is the well-known columnist and author of more than 100 books on antiques and collecting. The 2019 edition of Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide is available at Kovels.com and local bookstores. This all-new 51st edition of Kovels' popular annual price guide features 16,000 prices and more than 2,500 photos, larger than ever before, on items in categories most sought-after by collectors. New this edition – 300 marks to help identify and date pottery, porcelain, glass and other collectibles. Terry Kovel will discuss antiques and collectibles topics with accredited media. Photographs are available. Contact pr(at)kovels(dot)com.

About Kovels.com
Kovels.com, created by Terry Kovel and her daughter, Kim Kovel, provides collectors and researchers with up-to-date and accurate information on antiques and collectibles. The company was founded in 1953 by Terry Kovel and her late husband, Ralph. Since then, the Kovels have written more than 100 books and hundreds of articles about antiques, including the best-selling annual Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide. Their nationally syndicated antiques and collectibles newspaper column is distributed by King Features Syndicate to many newspapers nationwide. Terry and Ralph starred in television series on PBS, the Discovery Channel, and Home & Garden Television (HGTV). The website, Kovels.com, has been online since 1998. It offers more than a million free prices, and includes a free weekly email called "Kovels Komments," giving readers a bird's-eye view of the market through the latest news, auction reports, a Marks Dictionary, readers' questions and answers and much more.

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Tompkins International Announces A New Strategic Alliance With Etail Solutions

MonarchFx and NexusFx, both Tompkins International companies, have formed a strategic alliance with Etail Solutions. This alliance will enhance and complete product and service offerings for all clients. Read all the latest news.

The synergies of going to market together will make all three businesses more competitive. Together they are offering top brands and sellers unrivaled digital commerce capabilities, topline growth opportunities and strategic fulfillment tools to increase margins and aggressively deliver orders in alignment with guaranteed shipping programs.

NexusFx empowers consumer packaged goods brands to build and manage direct-to-consumer experiences, engagements and sales through its technology, marketing and services platform. The NexusFx digital toolset also enables brands to access and utilize critical first-party data, assisting them in making real-time decisions.

MonarchFx was created to give brands and retailers a highly credible fulfillment solution, superior to other alternatives. MonarchFx provides quality services at reasonable prices, requiring low capital investment.

The power of the Etail Solutions platform comes in its unique capability to execute the strategies provided by NexusFx and to connect, integrate and automate the client's entire sales and supply ecosystem, from customer-facing listings on sales channels to all possible sources of supply, including MonarchFx. No other platform achieves this deep level of integration, automation and absolute data integrity.

"This combination of skillsets, thought-leadership and platform capabilities allow us to jointly offer top brands and sellers best-in-class services for end-to-end supply chain capacities," stated Michael Anderson, CEO, Etail Solutions.

"I am happy to announce our strategic alliance with Etail. This alliance provides value to all businesses, clients and consumers, making this combination of toolsets the first of its kind," stated Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International. Read this here.

About Tompkins International
Tompkins International is a supply chain consulting and implementation firm that maximizes supply chain performance and value creation. It enables clients to be more profitable and valuable, while also becoming more agile, flexible and adaptive to the marketplace. Tompkins collaborates with client teams to develop improved operations strategies, supply chain planning and execution across all the Mega Processes of supply chains (PLAN-BUY-MAKE-MOVE-DISTRIBUTE-SELL). Tompkins is headquartered in Raleigh, NC and has offices throughout North America and in Europe and Asia. For more information visit: http://www.tompkinsinc.com.

About NexusFx
NexusFx, a Tompkins International company, builds and manages direct-to-consumer (D2C) channels for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. Our agility and flexibility to work within and around existing CPG processes ensures that projects are launched with speed and on budget. From strategy formulation to customer insights to product fulfillment, NexusFx's integrated approach delivers D2C capabilities to any brand entering or looking to grow further within the D2C market. For more information visit: http://www.nexusfx.com.

About MonarchFx
MonarchFx, a Tompkins International company, is an alliance of leading logistics service providers, supply chain technology providers and partners, managed by experienced executives, that provides world-class logistics and fulfillment solutions through an innovative logistics ecosystem. It serves retailers, brands and other sellers with multiple fulfillment channels, providing speed, quality and efficiency, operating with distributed logistics centers for nationwide coverage, allowing for same-day delivery. It is high-service, facilitated by advanced robotics, analytics and artificial intelligence methods for inventory allocation. For more information visit: http://www.monarchfxgo.com.

About Etail Solutions
Etail Solutions is a premier provider of integrated sales, fulfillment and supply chain automation solutions for online multi-channel retailers. Etail provides their Etail Vantage Platform (EVP) as a service for solving the real-world problems of mid-high volume online merchants by enabling coordinated multi-channel commerce through dynamic integrations to Sales Channels, Suppliers, Product Catalog content, Shipping Solutions, ERP systems and Marketing channels. For more information visit: http://www.EtailSolutions.com.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Sponsors Commit to Cybersecurity Workforce Development by Supporting Community College Cyber Summit

A growing number of businesses see the value in teaching the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. The Community College Cyber Summit (3CS) is the premier conference that prepares educators to grow the future workforce. Several big sponsors have already contributed to this cause and will be showing their support at 3CS.

The 3CS is a yearly event focused solely on cybersecurity education at community colleges. Faculty, administrators, students, employers, colleges, government and industries benefit from the hands-on workshops, presentations, speakers, job fair and fun activities offered. This year, 3CS is scheduled July 30 to Aug. 1 at Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City, Louisiana.

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Sponsors, as much as the presenters and participants, make this high-level event possible. Not only do they help provide educational opportunities, but they also connect with hundreds of faculty, administrators and students across the country eager to learn best practices, latest technologies, curricula and products to take back home.

Some current 3CS sponsors devoted to furthering cybersecurity education include Bay Path University, Cyber Innovation Center, EC-Council, General Dynamics Information Technology, IBM Security, Northwestern State University, Palo Alto Networks, and Red Hat, all of which are Platinum sponsors. SynED/California Cyberhub is a Diamond sponsor, which is a high-level sponsorship at $10,000.

"Sponsors are essential to 3CS success," said Dr. Bob Spear, the 3CS Chair. "The enormous amount of time, energy and commitment they provide attendees is outstanding. From presentations of cutting-edge technologies to contributing to cybersecurity career exploration options, we simply wouldn't have the interactive, hands-on summit we're able to host without them!"

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For more information, visit http://www.my3cs.org.

About Community College Cyber Summit:
The Community College Cyber Summit (3CS) is organized and produced by the National CyberWatch Center, National Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA), CyberWatch West (CWW), and Broadening Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC), which are all funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The outcomes of 3CS will leverage community college cybersecurity programs across the nation by introducing the latest technologies, best practices, curricula, products and more. To learn more, visit http://www.my3cs.org.

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Get Your Cleaning A-Game on This Back To School Season with With Libman’s New Maid Caddy, a Convenient and Portable Storage Unit for Cleaning Essentials

When back-to-school shopping for your kids, don't forget to include some items to help you get organized too this fall. The Libman Company, an American manufacturer of household and commercial cleaning products, has unveiled a new household organizational tool, the Libman Maid Caddy, a large but lightweight cleaning caddy with special compartments to hold a variety of essential cleaning tools including gloves, brushes, dustpans, sponges, cleaning solutions, dusters and more.

Libman is known for taking common cleaning products and improving them to provide better functionality and ease of use. In the case of the Maid Caddy, Libman has created a solution for consumers looking for not only a convenient way to store their frequently used cleaning tools together, but also one that offers them a portable solution when house cleaning from room to room.

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The Libman Maid Caddy has an open design that can fit a wide array of items, including up to six 32oz. bottles. There are numerous compartments as well as a special compartment for a toilet brush.

Made of a one piece polypropylene mold that won't crack, the Libman Maid Caddy is lightweight at 1.75 pounds and measures 16 inches x 11.5 inches. The Maid Caddy is equipped with pour spouts on one end to create a "mini-bucket."

The unit has a riveted handle grip to make carrying it from room to room a cinch. Once, the user is finished cleaning, the Maid Caddy can be stored under the sink or in a mud or laundry room.

The Libman Maid Caddy has a suggested retail price of $9.97 and is available at Home Depot and Kroger stores across the U.S. For more information about Libman and its products, visit http://www.libman.com. Read news here.

About The Libman Company
The Libman Company is a family-owned company that has been making quality cleaning tools since 1896. The company manufactures products from brooms and mops to more specialized tools for kitchen and bathroom cleaning and industrial uses. Libman proudly manufactures most of their products in the United States, including the company's well-known Wonder® Mop. For more information about the Libman Company, please visit http://www.libman.com.

MeasureMatch Launches Service Partner Hubs, Enabling Technology Vendors To Programmatically Scale Service Partner Relationships & Support More Customers Faster

London-based MeasureMatch, the enterprise systems and data professional services marketplace platform, announces today the launch of Service Partner Hubs, a platform development designed to expand the value of the marketplace with the participation of marketing, commerce, customer experience and related analytics technology vendors. Service Partner Hubs provides a step-by-step process for technology vendors to formally create new, or rapidly expand existing, service partnerships globally with full transparency and accountability. Read this here.

"The development of Service Partner Hubs is historic for us," says James Sandoval, Founder and CEO, MeasureMatch. "From the inception of the MeasureMatch business in 2016, it was clear that the participation of technology vendors would be enormously valuable for service providers, for clients, for marketplace dynamism and growth. Service Partner Hubs was 12 months in the making and is especially exciting because it builds on our focus to provide clients with seamless access to world class enterprise systems & data services professionals."

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Service Partner Hubs is starting with 20+ technology vendors, including FullStory, Heap, Amplitude, Qubole, mParticle, Tealium and others. 150+ technology organizations are expected to join in 2019, growing to more than 500 in 2020.

Helping Clients Get Important Systems & Data Work Done. Because Software Is No Longer "As A Service"
Business leaders in marketing, commerce, customer experience, product development and analytics roles are all aided by a growing number of software products. The astounding year-on-year growth of the Marketing Technology Landscape tells the story of an insatiable appetite for greater advances in software-driven data collection, data management, data engineering and data science, not to mention customer communications, customer service, customer identity resolution, customer experience personalization and much more.

MeasureMatch solves for this demand by carefully aggregating a global network of independent consultants, consultancies, agencies and systems integrators on the supply side of its marketplace platform, each easily booked into a service contract via a client's submitted and approved project brief.

Further demonstrating value and trust for clients, Service Partner Hubs also enables technology vendors to verify service partner relationships, including skills, experience and certifications. The vendor approved profiles of each service partner are exclusively presented to clients in a technology vendor-branded "Hub" and each service partner's profile is emblazoned with a "vendor verified" badge for clients to see.

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Adding Value For Independent Consultants, Consultancies, Agencies & Systems Integrators
In 2017 the World Economic Forum, together with Accenture, noted in its white paper Digital Transformation Initiative - Professional Services Industry "The extent to which digital technologies are disrupting Professional Services varies across segments". The paper went on to say "Advances in technology are opening the industry up to disruption", and "platforms can disrupt and disintermediate traditional business models by bringing buyers and suppliers together."

MeasureMatch is such a platform, operating on a borderless basis, preparing to scale into a $100+ billion addressable market.

Jedidiah Fugle, COO, Roboboogie, says, "We are thrilled to participate in the MeasureMatch marketplace. It's the perfect forum for matching our specialized data-driven design and continual improvement services with the folks who need them most. Being able to step into client conversations with the endorsement of our beloved tech partners is a sweet new way to move quickly through the get-to-know-you phase. The development of Service Partner Hubs will no doubt help us to present our skills, our services, our value more efficiently and effectively."

James adds, "With flexible and remote working on the rise, and an unprecedented acceleration in the formation of highly-skilled consultancies and agencies globally, this is a valuable new way for technology vendors to grow, support and deploy service partners from anywhere on earth, faster than ever before."

Technology vendors interested in participating can apply for a Vendor account here.

MeasureMatch's mission is to empower every organization globally to execute with unbelievable agility.

About MeasureMatch
Founded in 2016 and based in East London, MeasureMatch is an award-winning professional services marketplace providing direct access to a global workforce of independent software systems and analytics service providers. Customers are mid-market and enterprise organisations, small to mid size consultancies and technology vendors.

As many as 1,000 brands, retailers, agencies & consultancies are expected to turn to MeasureMatch in 2019 to find and book highly valued independent consultants & consultancies to get important software systems, data management and data science project work done fast, specifically addressing marketing, commerce, customer experience and related analytics business needs.

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MeasureMatch is backed by private investors from Google, Oracle, WPP, Dentsu Aegis Network, Havas Media, Omnicom Media Group, Coca-Cola and more.

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DMEXCO & Unilever Foundry Start up Hatch 2018

Unique Photo President Alexander Sweetwood Named to the “NextGens to Watch” 2019 List by Family Business Magazine

Alexander Sweetwood, President of Unique Photo, New Jersey's largest retail camera store and center for photography education, has been distinguished as a "Next Gen" to watch by Family Business Magazine. The people spotlighted by the magazine have gone way beyond earning credibility. The up-and-coming leaders—all under age 35--are bringing their families and businesses into the future.

Alexander Sweetwood became the third generation to lead Unique Photo when he was named President in 2015. He earned his BS in Business Administration and Finance and MBA from Montclair State University while continuously working in the business. His earliest memories, however, are as a child playing on the conveyer belts and building towering cardboard forts in the warehouse when he went to work with his parents. Read latest news here.

"This is an honor for me and my family," said 33-year-old Sweetwood. "I grew up in this business and knowing that my grandfather started Unique Photo is a tremendous source of pride and responsibility that drives me every day."

At a time when online retailers and cell phone camera technology is forcing the closure of other photo stores across the U.S., Unique Photo is thriving and plans to open a third location in Philadelphia later this year. Alexander is overseeing this expansion. The new Philadelphia store will be comparable in size to the 50,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Fairfield superstore. Unique Photo also has a smaller location in Hoboken.

According to Alexander's father and CEO Jonathan Sweetwood, Alexander has been the driving force behind the business over the last five years. He championed the company's expansion into new service offerings. "Four or five years ago, we were essentially only selling goods. He has since moved us into the service business, where we're now doing custom framing, printing, and we're an authorized Apple repair center. Our business has grown significantly because of it."

Unique Photo was founded 72 years ago by Bernard Sweetwood, Alexander's grandfather and the son of Russian immigrants, who was driven by a lifelong passion for photography and the American Dream. He began as a portrait photographer but quickly set his sights on building a bigger business. He opened a wholesale photographic supply store that would take them from humble beginnings in Brooklyn, N.Y., to one of the most successful wholesale and retail businesses of its kind.

Unique Photo's blend of size and customer service has proved to be a winning combination. Large enough to sell globally and compete with massive online retailers, yet small enough to offer the exceptional customer service of an independent camera store, Unique Photo is a thriving, multimillion-dollar business. Unique Photo carries over 20,000 products from leading manufacturers--everything from digital cameras and their accessories, lenses and lighting--to a full line of services including repairs, rentals and trade-ins, along with a bustling photo lab providing custom printing, framing and gifts. "Unique University" offers photography education that ranges from one-on-one training to seminars for professionals and photography enthusiasts alike. Photo excursions combine travel with photography education and bring participants to unique destinations all over the world.

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ABOUT UNIQUE PHOTO
Unique Photo is New Jersey's largest camera and video superstore offering the latest in photographic products and imaging technology. Its 50,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in Fairfield, N.J. features a spacious photography retail store, multi-media learning center, professional photo lab, meeting space, gourmet coffee bar and WiFi lounge. Unique Photo is also the top destination for photography education in New Jersey, hosting more than 1,000 amateur and professional photographers monthly for its classes. "Unique University" instructors include world famous photographers, industry guest lecturers and Unique Photo's professional staff. For more information, visit http://www.uniquephoto.com or call 973-377-2007.